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GE Money Loses Data on 650,000 JC Penney Credit Card Holders
Posted on Jan 18, 2008 by Tom Fragala
As a former IT professional, something particularly disturbing about this is that the data breach occurred because of an apparent lost backup tape at the well-known data storage company, Iron Mountain. This just should not happen--this company specializes in data protection. It is all they do.
Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing.
GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney and many other retailers, said Thursday night that the missing information includes Social Security numbers for about 150,000 people.
The information was on a backup computer tape that was discovered missing last October. It was being stored at a warehouse run by Iron Mountain Inc., a data storage company, and was never checked out but can't be found either, said Richard C. Jones, a spokesman for GE Money, part of General Electric Capital Corp.
More from The Associated Press.
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